There’s an awesome 3-minute video on TED about how to start a movement.
Take three minutes to go watch the video, then come back and we’ll chat.
Key Lessons
Welcome back!
Here are, I think, the key lessons from this video:
- Leadership means taking risks. It’s ok to be afraid of looking like an idiot, but you need to take action despite that fear.
- Embrace your followers as equals. As Seth Godin aptly notes in his book, Tribes, leadership is about empowering your followers. Or as Derek put it in the presentation, “The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.”
- Lead your change publicly. Followers who weren’t part of the movement when it started don’t learn how to behave from the leader. They learn from watching other followers.
- Following is another form of leadership. If you care about change, have the courage to follow a lone nut and get others to join in.
Anything you’d add? How do you lead change?
I absolutely LOVE the last one. Following a lone nut is its own form of leadership. I get a lot done, but I try to always make time to find, follow, and promote those lone nuts I run across. :-)
I agree… it’s an awesome take away! Am I your lone nut, Ben?
I’ll never tell. :-)